Calling BI Publisher Web Services from APEX

Question

Hi,
Has anyone been able to run a BI Publisher report from APEX using the Web Service interface provided by BI Publisher?
I have created Web Service Reference in APEX using:
http://<host>:<port>/xmlpserver/services/PublicReportService?wsdl
I have then created a page rendering process that calls the web service, in particular calling the runReport operation.
When a try and run the page, I get the following error:
"ORA-20001: soapenv:Server.userExceptionjava.lang.NullPointerException"
Basically I want to be be able to call the BI Pub report and view the output straight away.
Appreciate any help.
Cheers,
Matt

Answer 1

Hello,
I am using Jason's flex_ws_api and I have built an application that uses the BI Publisher web services to runReports. My service request looks like this (example)
<pre>
<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:pub="http://xmlns.oracle.com/oxp/service/PublicReportService">
<soapenv:Header/>
<soapenv:Body>
<pub:runReport>
<pub:reportRequest>
<pub:attributeFormat>pdf</pub:attributeFormat>
<pub:attributeLocale></pub:attributeLocale>
<pub:attributeTemplate>New Template 1</pub:attributeTemplate>
<pub:flattenXML>1</pub:flattenXML>
<pub:parameterNameValues/>
<pub:reportAbsolutePath>/~rdpatric/Training/whoami/whoami.xdo</pub:reportAbsolutePath>
<pub:reportData></pub:reportData>
<pub:reportDataFileName></pub:reportDataFileName>
<pub:sizeOfDataChunkDownload>10000</pub:sizeOfDataChunkDownload>
</pub:reportRequest>
<pub:userID>user</pub:userID>
<pub:password>password</pub:password>
</pub:runReport>
</soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>
</pre>
Obviously you would want to make a lot of these things variables...this is just an example...also sizeOfChunkDownload wasn't working for me at -1...idk...maybe it was something else...
Also if you use the flex_ws_api...you need to specify the namespace for your xpath statement ie.' xmlns="http://..."'
I am currently working on getting this working with the 'inSession' webservices as we have BI Pub set up SSO and APEX set up SSO so i need to be able to call the web services inSession...only problem is ssoCreateSession returns a 500 error and no xml...entered a TAR for this...sorry to digress. Use the above code and you should be able to get the runReport working.